Suffering, Pain and happiness: response to kodees query

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This whole doubt in your head that you are suffering because you started praying

is so irrational.

 

Think about it logically. When you did not pray and had good times did you

wonder why.

 

Then again when you did not pray and had bad times did you find out why.

 

We go through life trying to affix blame onto something else...why is that. Why

can we not take life as it is with its good and bad and be unruffled by it.

 

Define suffering for a start. Define pain and define happiness. You say your

life is miserable, define misery. Are all these not relative terms??

 

To one person being in a plastered limb for 6 weeks due to fracture can be

suffering, to another who is facing death from illness and has only 12 months to

live this may seem so trivial and what he is undergoing may seem suffering.

 

Similarly whilst to person A acquiring a Mercedes may bring him immense

happiness, whilst person B may find happiness in a simple meal of rice and daal.

 

Stop transferring blame in life to anything, grow up take responsibilities for

your own action and learn to deal with destiny with fortitude. Use faith to

guide you.

 

 

kodees <kodees wrote: Hello everyone,

 

I happened to listen the 'Lalitha sahasranamam' by Bombay Sisters 8

years ago. Without knowing any significance about its recital, I

started to learn it and recite for atleast 5 days a week initially.

 

Later I came to know that, reciting it everyday, we get all blessings

from the mother. After that, for the past three years, I have made it

a compulsory practise that, every day immediately after my shower I

light the lamp, and recite the sahasranamam, with some fruit or

payasam as offering.

 

But unfortunately, I started to face so many problems for the past

two years, and my life is so miserable now. But till today I strongly

belive, the Mother won't let me down, and I continue the recital.

 

Is it true that, she gives all kinds of sufferings to her devotees to

test their courage, before blessing them? Or Is there any formality,

that I'm not doing, while reciting the sahasranama?

 

- Vela